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Nationalpark Harz (Niedersachsen)

Quick facts

  • Natura 2000 site (code DE4129302)
  • Under Habitats Directive
  • Since October 1998
  • Country: Germany
  • Administrative region: Braunschweig (DE91)
  • Surface area: 158 km2 (15770.00 ha)
  • Marine area: 0%
  • Located in Continental biogeographical region
  • It protects 4 species of the Nature Directives
  • It protects 23 habitat types of the Habitats Directive

Source and more information: Natura 2000 Standard Data Form


Species


List

Species summary

Nature directives' species in this site (4)
Species group Number
Mammals 3
Mosses & Liverworts 1

Habitat types

Habitat type code Habitat type english name Cover [ha]
3160 Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds 0.2
3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation 30.1
4030 European dry heaths 7.8
6130 Calaminarian grasslands of the Violetalia calaminariae 0.1
6230 Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on silicious substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas in Continental Europe) 12
6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels 0.3
6510 Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) 9.2
6520 Mountain hay meadows 24
7110 Active raised bogs 213
7120 Degraded raised bogs still capable of natural regeneration 4.1
7140 Transition mires and quaking bogs 63.6
8110 Siliceous scree of the montane to snow levels (Androsacetalia alpinae and Galeopsietalia ladani) 3.2
8150 Medio-European upland siliceous screes 4.8
8210 Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 0.06
8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation 3.8
8310 Caves not open to the public 0
9110 Luzulo-Fagetum beech forests 2297
9130 Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests 312
9160 Sub-Atlantic and medio-European oak or oak-hornbeam forests of the Carpinion betuli 3
9180 Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines 5.4
91D0 Bog woodland 1550
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) 92.6
9410 Acidophilous Picea forests of the montane to alpine levels (Vaccinio-Piceetea) 4600

Designation information

NATURA 2000 is the ecological network for the conservation of wild animals and plant species and natural habitats of Community importance within the Union. It consists of sites classified under the Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive (the Nature Directives).

NATURA 2000 site under

Birds Directive 2009/147/EC (SPA) Not under Birds directive
 
Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC (SCI) Under Habitats directive
  • Date proposed as Site of Community Importance (SCI)
October 1998
  • Date confirmed as Site of Community Importance
December 2004
 
Date designated as Special Area of Conservation (SAC) December 2005
 
Date of Standard data form update April 2019

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